In this bonus episode, Chrissie is sharing everything she read aloud in the library in December and what she thought.

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Welcome back to Favorites Month! This week, Chrissie is sharing her favorite graphic novels of 2024.

FEATURED TITLES

Realistic Crowd Pleasers:

• Let's Go, Coco! by Coco Fox
• The New Girl by Cassandra Calin

Carving new ground in kidlit...

• Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison -- and How We Stay in Touch by Jay Jay Patton with Kiara Valdex, illustrated by Markia Jenai
• Pearl by Sherri L. Smith, illustrated by Christine Norrie
• Poetry Comics by Grant Snider

Light and Lovely

• Detective Beans: and the Case of the Missing Hat by Li Chen
• Monti and Leo: A Newcomer in Pocketville by Sylvia Kantorovitz
• The Egg Incident  by Ziggy Hanaor and Daisy Wynter

Dark, Weird, Funny:

• Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp
• K is in Trouble by Gary Clement

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Welcome to Favorites Month! Each week in December, Chrissie is sharing a category of her favorite kidlit of 2024. This week, we're talking short chapter books.

On this show, short chapter books are defined as highly illustrated fiction narratives told across chapters in under 200 pages.

Featured Titles

• A Day with Mousse by Claire Lebourg, translated by Sophie Lewis
• Beti and the Little Round House by Atinuke, translated by Emily Hughes
• Drag and Rex: Sweet and Silly by Susan Lubner, illustrated by Blythe Russo
• Lone Wolf Goes to School and Lone Wolf Gets a Pet by Kiah Thomas, illustrated by K. Fai Steele
• Welcome to the Woofmore and The Woofmore Is Not Haunted by Donna Gephart and Lori Haskins Houran, illustrated by Josh Cleland
• Loose Threads by Isol, translated by Lawrence Schimel (note this title was inadvertently out of alphabetical order. It happens!)

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Welcome to Favorites Month! Each week in December, Chrissie will share a category of her favorite kidlit of 2024. This week, we're talking middle grade.

Featured Titles

• A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall  by Jasmine Warga
• Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste
• Read At Your Own Risk by Remy Lai
• The Curse of Eelgrass Bog by Mary Averling
• The House with a Dragon In It by Nick Lake, illustrated by Emily Gravett
• The Liars Society by Alyson Gerber
• The Underdogs of Upson Downs by Craig Silvey

Honorable Mentions

• The Fairy Tale Fan Club by Richard Ayoade
• The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko

On My TBR:

• Tig by Heather Smith
• Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood by Robert Beatty
• The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly
• Stranded by Nikki Shannon Smith

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In this Reading Raves episode, Chrissie shares eight great books for kids that she read this month.

FEATURED TITLES

Short Chapter Books

• Frank and the Big Mistake by Martha Brockenbrough, illustrated by Jon Lau
• Loose Threads by Isol, translated Lawrence Schimel

Graphic Novels

• Detective Beans: and the Case of the Missing Hat by Li Chen
• Pearl by Sherri L. Smith, illustrated by Christine Norrie
• The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip by Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris
• The Wolf Suit by Sid Sharp

Middle Grade

• Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste
• The House with a Dragon In It by Nick Lake, illustrated by Emily Gravett

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In this "Help! My kid needs a book!" episode, Chrissie is answering 5 listener requests for books to gift to kids this holiday season.

FEATURED TITLES:

• Towed by Toad by Jashar Awan
• Super Magic Boy: I am a Dinosaur and Super Magic Boy: I Am a Space Tiger by Jarod Rosello
• Rabbit and Bear series by Julian Gough, illustrated by Jim Field
• Just One Flake by Travis Jonker
• The House with a Dragon In It by Nick Lake, illustrated by Emily Gravett
• Lily and the Night Creatures by Nick Lake, illustrated by Emily Gravett
• The Winterton Deception series by Janet Sumner Johnson

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In today's mini pep talk episode, Chrissie shares some questions for you to consider when connecting your kids to their next right book.

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In today's Forecast episode, Chrissie is sharing the 7 kidlit books releasing in November 2024 that she is most excited about.

Picture Book

• Rocket Puppies by William Joyce (11/5)

Short Chapter Books

• Drag and Rex: Sweet and Silly by Susan Lubner, illustrated by Blythe Russo (11/5)
• Frank and the Big Mistake by Martha Brockenbrough, illustrated by Jon Lau (11/12)

Graphics

• Gnome and Rat: First Snow by Lauren Stohler (11/5)
• The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip by Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris (11/5)
• The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho, illustrated by Deb JJ Lee (11/12)
• The Squadi by Christina Soontornvat, illustrated by Joanna Cacao (11/12)

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In this Reading Raves episode, Chrissie shares 9 kidlit books she read and loved during the month of October.

FEATURED TITLES

Short Chapter Books

• The Woofmore Is Not Haunted by Lori Haskins Houran and Donna Gephart, illustrated by Josh Cleland
• Drag and Rex: Sweet and Silly by Susan Lubner, illustrated by Blythe Russo
• A Day with Mousse by Claire Lebourg
• Beti and the Little Round House by Atinkuke, illustrated by Emily Hughes
• Lone Wolf Goes to School and Lone Wolf Gets a Pet by Kiah Thomas, illustrated by K. Fai Steele

Middle Grade

• The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night by Steven Banbury
• The Fairy Tale Fan Club by Richard Ayoade, illustrated by David Roberts

Audiobooks

• The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers, illustrated by Shawn Harris, narrated by Ethan Hawke

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In this booklist episode, Chrissie shares 10 books she read as a child that had a formative impact on her as a reader.

FEATURED BOOKS

Picture Books

• Eloise by Kay Thompson
• Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox, illustrated by Julie Vivas
• Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger
• Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
• The Wolf's Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza

Chapter Books / Middle Grade

• Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back by Shel Silverstein
• Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
• The Toilet Paper Tigers by Gordon Korman
• Terror at the Zoo by Peg Kehret

RESOURCE MENTIONED IN THE SHOW

• Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen on Substack: Looking at Picture Books

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